remember | stop + to-INFINITVE | VERBing – English Grammar Profiler

In the English Grammar Profile, B2 point 45 in VERBS is defined as:

follow some verbs with a ‘to’-infinitive or an ‘-ing’ form, with a change in meaning.

*The verbs in the EGP examples are ‘remember’ and ‘stop’.

It is interesting that the top 25 ‘remember’ are all in the base/infinitive form for remember.  Whereas ‘stop’ has a few past forms.

In iWeb:

remember* to _VVI

1 REMEMBER TO KEEP 9043 2 REMEMBER TO USE 6925 3 REMEMBER TO TAKE 6747 4 REMEMBER TO CHECK 5406 5 REMEMBER TO BRING 3839 6 REMEMBER TO INCLUDE 3200 7 REMEMBER TO MAKE 2650 8 REMEMBER TO PUT 2135 9 REMEMBER TO ADD 2022 10 REMEMBER TO TURN 1938 11 REMEMBER TO GET 1826 12 REMEMBER TO ASK 1789 13 REMEMBER TO LOOK 1746 14 REMEMBER TO CHANGE 1517 15 REMEMBER TO LEAVE 1512 16 REMEMBER TO GIVE 1502

17 REMEMBER TO STAY 1495

18 REMEMBER TO REMOVE 1463

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19 REMEMBER TO SET 1421 20 REMEMBER TO SAVE 1331 21 REMEMBER TO FOLLOW 1278 22 REMEMBER TO CLICK 1083 23 REMEMBER TO GO 1061 24 REMEMBER TO WEAR 1054

25 REMEMBER TO PACK 1032

stop* to _VVI

1 STOP TO THINK 3306 2 STOPPED TO THINK 1412 3 STOPPED TO HELP 1147 4 STOP TO TAKE 1073 5 STOPPED TO TAKE 954

6 STOP TO CONSIDER 879

7 STOPS TO MAKE 701 8 STOP TO SEE 700 9 STOPPED TO LOOK 677 10 STOPPING TO TAKE 649 11 STOP TO LOOK 640 12 STOP TO GET 617 13 STOPPED TO TALK 594 14 STOPPED TO ASK 578

15 STOPPED TO CONSIDER 535

16 STOPPED TO SEE 525 17 STOPPED TO WATCH 475 18 STOPPED TO GET 452 19 STOP TO ASK 449 20 STOPS TO GET 440 21 STOP TO MAKE 435 22 STOPPING TO THINK 431 23 STOP TO HELP 429 24 STOPPED TO CHECK 408

25 STOP TO PICK 403

remember* _VVG

1 REMEMBER SEEING 14228 2 REMEMBER READING 11923 3 REMEMBER THINKING 6492 4 REMEMBER GOING 5809 5 REMEMBER WATCHING 5509 6 REMEMBER HEARING 4906 7 REMEMBER GETTING 4118 8 REMEMBER FEELING 3124 9 REMEMBER SITTING 3098 10 REMEMBER PLAYING 3010 11 REMEMBER LOOKING 2471 12 REMEMBER SAYING 2091 13 REMEMBER WALKING 1846 14 REMEMBER MAKING 1506 15 REMEMBER TAKING 1496 16 REMEMBER TRYING 1473 17 REMEMBER USING 1456 18 REMEMBER ASKING 1418 19 REMEMBER TALKING 1417 20 REMEMBER TELLING 1408 21 REMEMBER COMING 1285 22 REMEMBERED SEEING 1150 23 REMEMBER LEARNING 1060 24 REMEMBER BUYING 1036

25 REMEMBER STANDING 928

1 STOP USING 29074 2 STOPPED WORKING 22277 3 STOP TAKING 20434 4 STOP WORKING 19323 5 STOPPED USING 12576 6 STOP TALKING 12020 7 STOP TRYING 11986 8 STOP MAKING 11951 9 STOP THINKING 11723 10 STOP PLAYING 10407 11 STOPPED TAKING 8689 12 STOPS WORKING 7798 13 STOP LOOKING 7456 14 STOP EATING 6479 15 STOP READING 6225 16 STOP PAYING 5673 17 STOPPED PLAYING 5461

18 STOPPED MAKING 4763

19 STOP WASTING 4542

Newsbook How can we measure our daily water consumption usage and stop wasting water at home? Monitoring your water consumption will stop the waste. You will also want to check the efficiency of your individual water devices at home.

20 STOP CALLING 4396 21 STOP GIVING 4157 22 STOP BUYING 4107 23 STOP WATCHING 4060 24 STOP MOVING 3882

25 STOP LAUGHING 3603

B1 vocabulary.  (there was nothing higher)

(consider|remove|wasting)

*1 example in PELIC: ‘stopping wasting food’ which felt a bit awkwardly worded.